Torrent Site For Academics: Brilliant!

by Dr. Bertalan Meskó on February 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts came up with a very simple but still brilliant idea of creating a torrent site for academics. They have community sites such as ResearchGATE and reference managers such as Mendeley, but this torrent site sharing even huge datasets could find its target audience quickly.

AcademicTorrents provides researchers with a reliable and decentralized platform to share their work with peers, as well as the rest of the world. The site currently indexes over 1.5 petabytes of data, including NASA’s map of Mars.

AcademicTorrents allows researchers to upload datasets, articles and other research material. The site runs it own tracker and supports web-seeds as well, which guarantee that files are available at all times.